#573 That one person who laughs when you tell a really bad joke

This is also known as The Pity Laugh and it somehow manages to save your terrible joke from being a complete bomb. See, now you didn’t serve up a dud that hit dead air. No, no, your humor is just a little high brow and hard to understand, that’s all.

I just wanted to suggest an awesome thing (because, as my little sister pointed out- you must have a hard time coming up with all of these):

That, “Thank Goodness I Didn’t Mess That Up” Feeling

You know the kind you get, when you’re having a really important conversation with someone, or on your first day of a job, and by the time you’re done, if nothing went wrong, you’re in this state of wowed happiness. “I can’t believe I got through that without messing it up!”

Awesome! I once did stand-up in front of 400 people. the material i prepared wasn’t right for that audience, still there was one guy in the front row laffing his ass off! I just focussed on him and thank go he was there otherwise I would’ve totally died!!

When i know i’m telling a bad joke, I just start to laugh really loud myself. Then everybody just look at me real stupid, and now i’m laughing even harder because of their reaction. My laughing gets out of control and i cant stop anymore! Oeh man, does my belly hurt!

Alternately, there’s the delayed payoff, when most people do laugh, but someone doesn’t get it until a few minutes, hours, or even days later. Out of the blue, you hear them go, “Hahaha! Now I get it!”

Omg, you have described one of my best friends perfectly. After about 30 seconds, once everyone is stopping their laughter after a bad joke of one of our teachers, she alway says loudly “ohhhhh I get it now!!” which results in groans and laughter from the rest of us.

Yesterday while already seated and enjoying coffee with some friends, some more arrived and while they were in line, I was admiring one girls new sneakers. Then I said, “…but there comes a time and a certain age, when you have to start questioning what’s right to wear… too young, too short, too hip, too not; inappropriate you know? Which can be confusing.”
Both these friends are single; one says, “Yes, I know; there comes a time when these are the questions one has to ask when dating guys too!” We laughed so hard and loud. The others sat down; both married and asked to be let in on the joke; when told, they never laughed at all. We looked at one another bewilderedly and laughed again!

Idk how many times ppl keep telling me I’m hilarious …. I think it’s jst that I’m really witty, I cant do puns and honestly I don’t lik them to much but I always laugh at my friends and families jokes, it’s always a joy when ppl laugh bcuz thts the whole reason the person told the joke, to mak u laugh… The only person I don’t laugh with is my math teacher… Ughhhhh he has the WORST sence of humour but almost all my friends have made me laugh so hard at least once that it made me pee my pants

And the time in sex-Ed where the teachers said “now I know that you probably don’t know too much about sex…” lol! We make jokes about it! I love how there are secret inside jokes that the adults can’t know, it’s so fun!!

Ahahaha ya it’s funny the things ppl do and say in sex Ed classes ther was this one guy who super shy and he was at the back row and then the teacher showd a pic of a girl and he ran to a front row seat and his mouth droped and his eyes went huge then he whispered “ther so big” and my male teacher said “I know they r beauti……” then he coughed and stoped his self lol!!!!